Hamper manufacture



Dec..8 1942. H. w. FINN HAL 2,304,683

HAMPER MANUFACTURE I 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed July :51, 1940 Dec. 8, 1942. H. w. FINN ETAL HAMPER MANUFACTURE Fmd July 51. 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 sachets nan MANUFA a r:

Harry W.

Finn and William H. Gray, Monroe,

Mich, assignors to Consolidated Paper Company, Monroe, Mich, a corporation of Michigan Application done 31, 1940, Serial No. 3%,7'78 3 Claims. -(Cl. 224-45) This invention relates to compartment-providing carriers of the portmanteau form, especially for isolating separate containers of the type of beverage bottles. a

This invention has utility when incorporated in paper board strip units with the ends foldable to ward abutting relation to provide bottle spacing partition and stalls with a grip upwardly thereram. 1

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. i isa perspective viewin set-up positionof an embodiment of the invention in a say for a half dozen beverage bottles;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank or strip for the hamper or carrying case of Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the assembled collapsed strip in readiness to be set up into the carrier of Fig. 1;

. Fig. i is a fragmentary detail view showing the spread between the partition sections in shifting the wing toward stall forming position;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the invention as a hamper for cylindrical type of container in lieu oi special double swell type to which the device of Fig. 1 is more particularly adapted;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the hamper of Fig. 5; r

Fig. '7 is a view of the strip of Fig. 8 in collapsed assembled position ready to be set up into the hamper of Fig. 5, parts being broken away; and t Fig. 8 is a detail view showing the bottle in position and with the swinging oi the wing at spreading partition for the wing to co to stall forming position. i

m the carrying out of the invention herein, strip stock, say of paper board, box board or the like, may be used as the basis for the blank. In practice two ply pasted paper board of .036" has been found acceptable not only for the formation but in the calendared base, at least one thereof to receive advertising or printing notation. This strip sheet stock blank of paper board may have scoring i medially thereof, with parallel scorings 2 therefrom in locating row portions 3 for the bottom. Thereirom parallel opposing riser sides 1 d extend to scoring 5. Parallel with the scoring b is scoring 6 and between these scorings 5, 6 are located shoulder portions i, which, in set-up position, may be inclined toward each other to meet at the scoring 8 and there have grip portions b extend from such scorings t. One of these grip portions 8 has hinge 8 for defining tongue it.

carrier,

the strip or blank for Gompanion or complementary grip portion a has be cutout H, which in the set-up position for these scorings t as adjacent permits the defined portion I!) to swing out of its opening i2 through the cutout il in providing a complete hand hold for the grip.

Adjacent the scoring 5 and extending toward the scoring 5 in the shoulder regions i there are dows or cutouts i3. From the scoring t as beyond the grip portions 8 are partition portions "adapted to come into parallelism in the set-up hereunder. As these partition portions it are opposite or depend from the grip portions 8 there is register therebetween for window is in the region of the windows is, thus leaving relative clearway in the hamper above the sides ii. The

extent of this partition it may be that of the vanes 01 the shoulders 5 plus the sides ii, thereby abutting the scoring i in'the position for the bottom sections 3, d, to be in a common plane with a row way on each side of this two ply pantition it. This partition it has wing-defining portions It with past such hinge as defined. Cutout it permits access to this wing it to swing it out of its window 2d and as so swung outward thetongue it will ride on the companion partition is until this tongue in may snap against the face of the companion wing it. Accordingly, as the pair of wings adjacent are moved into position at approximately right angles to thepartition portions id,

there is an automatic locking of these win s as stall-providing portions so coacting that container or bottle it may not be in direct contact, and

there isthus avoidance of any rubbing action to mar the container, bottle, or any marking which may be thereon.

In the instance of the special type of container it having bottom enlargement 22, there is supplemental holding action against shifting of the container as to the row. This, at the base 22, may be eflected by windows or ports 23 centrally of the respective stalls and from the score lines 2 rising away from the bottom and along the sides 3 for rigidly keying or holding the bot tles apart. This means that this enlarged portion 22 of the bottle it is seated in the port 253 against readily shifting outward even in careless handling of this charged hamper. Upwardly extending or reduced neck portion 2% of the container 2i may extend through the window is of the shoulder and thereby provide adequate holding means for the bottles or containers, in the event the more accurate holding attained by the ports 23 be omitted.

In the carrying out of this invention, the

hinge ll, locking tongue l8,

strip of Fig. 2 may have the blanking-out for the windows I3, H, is, as well as the ports 23 when such are in order, the defining for the grip l0, wings l8, and tongues l8, the scorings I, 2, 5, 6, l1. Openings 59 leave full form for the respective wings l8. hesive 2? binding at the free or upper portions of the grip portions and at binding 28 between the portions M as opposing each other and adjacent the score lines 6. There is accordingly sealing only at above and below the sides oi the region of the grip. In this set-=up, .the assembled hamper may be stored or shipped in the fiat (Fig. 3). This is a compact, substantial, knockdown position for the assembled device. As occasion arises for use, one may take hold of the grip, thrust through to shift the portion III on its hinge 9 into the companion window or opening II in completing the hand hold. Then by setting the container to bring the bottom I portions 8, 3, into alignment, the hamper is in set-up position as to the partitions M. At this time it is proper to engage the wing 86 by way of the clearance opening l9 and swing the wings as registering, outward into stall-forming position. This springs the partition portions M away from each other until the tongues it come into registering or looking holding position with the companion wings. The hamper is thus completed ready to have, the respective bottles inserted through the windows l8, say three on each side for the half dozen set-up oi this hamper. When the delivery is completed, in the event it be desired to conserve the container, it is only necessary, as the bottles are removed, to collapse the hamper into the flat and retain such for subsequent use.

In the instance there be latitude for such type of carrier as omits the ports 23, there may he purpose in completing terminal stalls of the respective rows. To such end, the partition H may have strips 29 therefrom anchored by adhesive 30 with the inner portions of the sides I (Fig. 8). This means there is an effective retention against and spill of a terminal container or bottle 3| even as non-swell or cylindrical as to its base portion.

Cutout Ii (Figs. 5, 6, 7) oiiers resistance to the rounded end of the tongue is as thrust through or out of its rounded end opening I 2- and into this cutout ii. Accordingly, in this form there is this additional holding of the tongue as thrust through into the three ply hand hold portion the grip.

Tongues it are desirably of rounded corners at their free ends and of a transverse dimension suificiently substantial to key the stall, and these may be even of dissimilar extent. With the loop inposition set up to have the grip uppermost and the bottom portions 8, 3, in a common plane, then the partition M is theretowardr Assembly is effected by adapproaching the scoring I. At such position, to place in readiness for receiving the halt dozen bottles, the operator may thrust hands in the windows It and simultaneously shift the tour wings I6 into perpendicular position as to the partition H. In so doing, the tongues I8, ll, of the respective hampers snap past the hinge portions i1 01 the stalls and thus readily lock the bottle carrier or carton in set-up position to receive the bottles. In this set-up the extent of the stalls is suflicient to space the bottles against any rubbing action directly of one bottle as to an adjacent bottle, whether at the wing portions I! or at the partition l4.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A hamper strip comprising a medial bottom-' providing portion, a. pair of opposing parallel sides extending upwardly from the bottom, a pair of shoulders inclined from the sides remote from the bottom, a pair 0! grip sections from adjacent the strip termini beyond the shoulders, together way window in the partition below the shoulders.

2. A hamper strip comprising a medial bottomproviding portion, a pair 01 opposing parallel sides extending upwardly from the bottom, a

pair of shoulders inclined from the sides remote from the bottom, a grip section from each shoulder beyond the shoulder, said two grip sections being assembled to complete a hand hold, strip termini beyond the grip sections forming abutting partition portions dependable from theshoulders adjacent the hand hold, and a pair of oppositely swingable wings from the partition portions, a wing on one partition portion having a projecting tongue adapted to engage the opposite wing to hold the pair of wings at an angle away from the partition.

3. A hamper strip comprising a medial bottom providing portion, a pair of opposing parallel sides extending upwardly from the bottom, a pair of shoulders inclined from the sides remote from the bottom, a grip section toward each with the partition, stalls in the hamper for spac- I ing articles.

HARRY W. FINN. WILLIAM H. GRAY. 

